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Address
apollonia beach resort
po box 32 gazi71414GR
amoudara-heraklion
Kreta-Griechenland
Email: reservations@apollonia.gr
http://www.apollonia.gr/


The hotel in general
The Apollonia Beach Resort & Spa was built in 1977 in the typical Cretan style. In 2007 it has been completely renovated and has found a pleasant combination between the classic local style with the modern. In the large hotel garden you can find your quietness for recreation and relax, whereas in the evening you enjoy one of the numerous cocktails at the bar or watch a show presented by our animation team.

Hotel location
The Hotel Apollonia Beach Resort & Spa is located on the north coast of Crete, about 8 km west of the airport and 6 km of the City of Iraklio, directly on the wide sandy/pebbled beach of Amoudara. It is recommended to bring shoes for the beach.

About 15 minutes walking to the centre of Amoudara with it’s shops, bars and discos. Right in front of the hotel you can find a bus station for the busses to Iraklio Centre.


Service at the hotel
VIP-Service, room service, laundry service, doctor, exchange, all credit cards accepted, free bus transfer from Apollonia Beach Resort & Spa to Santa Marina Beach Hotel, babybed, baby phone, stroller, baby sitter on request, hairdresser, 24-hours reception, lunch baskets on reservation, car rental, excursions.

For our repeaters we are offering the Cyan Bonus Club Card, that is honouring them with attractive offers and reductions, e.g. priority room reservation, easy check-in, late check-out etc.


Gastronomy in the hotel
There are 4 Restaurants: the main restaurant with Show cooking and theme buffets (special diet food possible), 3 specialty restaurants (with reservation): Asian, Italian, and Greek. Main bar with nice garden terrace. Poolbar with snacks and possibility for lunch, beach bar, amphitheatre with open-air-disco (weather depended).

Board: Bed and breakfast, half board or all inclusive.
All-inclusive: Full board (buffet), theme buffets, late breakfast 10-11 a.m. In the afternoon coffee break, ice cream for the children 10 a.m – 6 p.m. A variety of national and international alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., pool bar and beach bar 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Possibility of dinner in the specialty restaurants once per stay (choice between 2 menus).

A-la-carte possible, the half board-/All-Inclusive dinner price will be charged on the total of the bill. Asian Restaurant “Anjin San”: our Chinese chef will enchant you with the delightful meals of his home country. Italian restaurant “Al Capone”t: our cook Guiseppe presents you the specialties of Italy. Greek Tavern “Ambrosia”: try the variety of foods of your holiday destination country. 1x Cretan Evening (with charge)per week in the Greek Tavern on the beach with rich salad- and starters-buffet, BBQ with fish- and meat-specialties and a variety of local deserts, Greek and Cretan live music, folkloristic dance group and following international dance evening. In all restaurants appropriate clothing is required (gentlemen with long trousers).


Sports, entertainment and pool in the hotel
Sports and leisure: All-inclusive: 1 tennis court (balls and rackets), floodlight (with charge), aerobics, gymnastic, 5x5 soccer, mini golf, basketball, beach-volley- / waterbasketball, table tennis, darts, boccia, bicycle renting (1 hour per day), trial for surfing and scuba diving. Canoes and pedal boats available.

Offers of local services on the beach with charge: Surfboard rental (1 hour per day, licence required, weather depending), sailing, water ski, scuba diving-lessons and -excursions.

Spa and Wellness Centre with charge: fitness-room with the newest equipment of Nautilus, Powerplate, sauna, Hammam, Laconium, professional wellness area with different therapies with products of Elemis, e.g. body massage with chocolate or with oils of plants and spices.

Animation: daily animation program, different beach and pool games, guests shows, beach parties, evening shows in the amphitheatre or in the disco, creative studio.


Hotel room/Accommodation
The hotel consists of a 5-floored main building and 2-floored Bungalow-areas. In the main building you will find the Lobby with reception, TV-Room, lounge and card-playing-room. Internet-corner, Billiard and WiFi-Internet connection with charge. A souvenir shop with mini market is located in the large garden of the hotel.

The newly renovated rooms with bathtub/WC are modern equipped with LCD-flat screen (Satellite) and integrated radio, telephone, safe, individual air-condition, mini-fridge, ADSL-internet connection, balcony or terrace. You have the choice between standard double rooms (max 3 adults) with garden view or side sea view, or family-rooms with garden view, consisting of two separated bedrooms, Executive rooms with separate wardrobe and Jacuzzi, Suite with two separate bedrooms, living room with dining area, Jacuzzi and big balcony.


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765 hotel reviews for Apollonia Beach Resort & Spa

5.1
Suns
If the wind coming from the direction of the station is nearby, it smelt a bit of oil/diesel. The complex is clean, but the neighborhood (abandoned hotel) not. A little further away you can see, as in Greece as usual, there was a lot of trash on the street edges. Read more
in October 11,
Flo, Age 31-35, Couple
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5.7
Suns
A quiet generous, well-kept and clean hotel with park and in a very quiet location. It has a main building with about 500 rooms, apartments and bungalow with about 200. the clean rooms are spacious and telephone, Refrigerator, flat screen, internet connection and safe (both for a fee ). The bathroom is clean and modern with bath tub, toilet, a generous vanity with an equally generous mirror and hair dryer equipped. in the main building there is a main restaurant and two theme restaurants, once Asian and Italian, a generous day bar, front des... Read more
in October 11,
Bernd & Roswitha, Age 56-60, Couple
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5.8
Suns
From the moment we arrived we felt comfortable and were accommodating. The hotel is located in a beautiful, park-like garden (here is once a week a leadership offered, which is a very interesting) has several pools and a nice beach (beach chairs and umbrellas were plentiful and free of charge, as well as beach towels, which were changed every two days may be). The rooms are well appointed and clean. The buffet was varied and good, in the last week of October (end of the season) but somewhat limited. Especially we would like to highlight the ... Read more
in October 11,
Frank, Age 61-65, Couple
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4.0
Suns
beautiful hotel, very nice garden, very clean, very good guests Mix ( many families, no loud guests, many Germans ), We had 1 family room and 1 double room. The double room was very nice. The Fz was a double room, at which one a small anteroom to balcony now grown has. The beds for children were simple cots. The main room was in the annex really dark. The bathroom was good. the staff were very friendly and helpful. never again (North Coast ) Crete. Reason see'location'. In October it can on Crete already quite cool. We had during the day par... Read more
in October 11,
Volker, Age 41-45, Family
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5.9
Suns
a very recommendable, child-friendly hotel. Very varied buffet. Local cuisine are offered. Simply a great hotel. Children's entertainment for all old classes. Read more
in October 11,
Conny, Age 46-50, Family
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Interesting quotes from the reviews


Hotel in general

    • in August 11
      The cleanliness of the hotel, as well as in the room there was nothing to complain about.
    • in October 10
      If left and right of the hotel the beach is so clean and the ruins occupied .
    • in September 10
      Beach, snack bar in the main hotel, altogether very clean, neat and well-kept.
    • in July 10
      The cleanliness of the hotel and the rooms there is nothing to complain about.
    • in August 11
      On the whole a good hotel, but with five star adorns wrong.
    • in August 11
      Hotel very good, staff smiled seldom, since rather Großküchenklima andStress announced.
    • in July 11
      We stayed twice this year in this hotel and it was very, very good.
    • in May 11
      Overall the hotel is very good.
    • in April 11
      It is a good hotel for a quiet beach or a family vacation leaves nothing to be desired.
    • in September 10
      Very good hotel, in the any time again we would.
    • in June 10
      We can recommend this hotel with very good conscience.
    • in July 11
      Great garden, leckerses food with a large selection and good quality.
    • in May 11
      Unfortunately the double roomProvided apart, therefor the Matratzenl of good quality.
    • in July 10
      The food is for years in a very good quality and variety international and local ausgererichtet.
    • in August 11
      Was a great holiday!
    • in June 10
      Great holiday.
    • in May 10
      We found this to be a great holiday and really the best time of the year as it should be.
    • in May 10
      All in all a great holiday.
    • in August 11
      If you have a hair in the soup, you can find surely one of, but the hotel is really great, at any time gladly again!
    • in July 11
      We have a wonderful holiday in this great hotel.
    • in June 10
      We were 10 days to two of us stayed at the hotel. It was really great.
    • in September 11
      All in all it was a nice holiday and we can recommend this hotel only recommend Wei just as good!
    • in June 10
      It was a very nice holiday to chill.
    • in April 10
      We had a very nice holiday there, it is particularly positive we noticed that the staff speaks many languages and was always helpful.
    • in August 11
      We can only recommend this hotel.
    • in June 11
      I can only recommend the hotel.
    • in July 10
      I can highly recommend the hotel.
    • in July 10
      Highly Recommended hotel!
    • in May 10
      Hotel is highly recommended, particularly the beautiful outdoor area with its many seats I wish that the desk a different closing.
    • in September 11
      All in all it was a nice holiday and we can recommend this hotel only recommend Wei just as good!
    • in July 11
      We have a wonderful holiday in this great hotel.
    • in July 11
      We had a wonderful holiday.
    • in July 10
      All in all we had a wonderful holiday in a hotel, its size, as you aren't tell that the quiet corners but every comfort of a big hotels to offer ( nice spa area, entertainment, kids club .
    • in August 11
      Downside: pool bar, beach bar and staff a bit rude, oil plant in nearby very disturbing.
  • run-down and tatty place for family beach holiday

Room


Service

    • in June 11
      The staff was friendly and helpful and also the plant didn't bother us.
    • in October 10
      The staff was always friendly and helpful.
    • in August 11
      The staff is very friendly and helpful.
    • in June 10
      5 * In the category of the country are certainly too much but the hotel is a good 4 star hotel with friendly and hospitable service, good kitchen and great rooms.
    • in June 10
      5 * In the category of the country are certainly too much but the hotel is a good 4 star hotel with friendly and hospitable service, good kitchen and great rooms.
    • in September 10
      The service was overall very friendly.
    • in June 10
      - BEAUTIFUL, very well maintained beach - great choice ( sometimes we didn't really taste), but make sure there is something for everyone - delicious cocktails and very friendly service (except for the sometimes a bit moody head waiter at the lobby bar) - super nice and not pushy entertainers - rooms were perfectly adequate - unfortunately only 3 German TV programs ( but you are not there to watch TV.
    • in September 11
      We felt very comfortable during our whole stay, very friendly staff, a wonderful atmosphere, also due to the many old trees, very good we found the wireless reception in the lobby.
    • in August 11
      A well-kept Hotel facility with friendly staff and adequate facilities.
    • in August 11
      Suggestions were taken and improvements implemented staff friendly.
    • in August 11
      A great and nice hotel with good service, friendly staff, excellent food, Italian was great, the beach was very nice, only stayed one week on a business trip, so I wasn't able to everythingTake advantage of!
    • in June 11
      Friendly staff.
    • in October 10
      The staff is friendly and always made sure to make everything right for the guest, commendable, as well.
    • in September 10
      Very friendly staff with perfect service.
    • in September 10
      Very friendly staff- Antonia from the beach bar was super nice.
    • in August 10
      A special thanks to all the staff was always very friendly!
    • in July 10
      Staff very friendly and hard-working.
    • in August 11
      A great and nice hotel with good service, friendly staff, excellent food, Italian was great, the beach was very nice, only stayed one week on a business trip, so I wasn't able to everythingTake advantage of!
    • in May 11
      otherwise is luxury, it is a nice and well-kept area with good service.
    • in July 11
      Great service, great rooms, pool and beach was very nice, staffVery friendly and competent, great kitchen, all in allvery, very good!
    • in July 11
      Great service, daßass you after the check out still get a room for showers.
    • in August 11
      Great food, nice staff, beautiful garden, big pool area and a clean beach.
    • in June 11
      The staff were very nice, especially in the tavern and at the beach bar.
    • in October 10
      Very pleasant hotel with wonderful gardens; you are made to feel very well cared for, the staff is very nice and tried hard to please the guests; the offer of food is varied, in particular, I found the offer at changing Cretan food very good; all-inclusive was a good choice; the room was large and clean as was the bathroom; while it's like the area is to some extent other you had an industrial area, a quick access to the highway so we in ten minutes to the port in the capital city of Heraklion were, where we had a nice easy stroll around the town; is also worth seeing the Creta aquarium; the afternoons we spent because of the heat on the beach; we had a great relaxing stay!
    • in August 10
      Very nice atmosphere, very nice staff (thanks Georgia for your friendly welcome every morning).
    • in August 10
      It was a very enjoyable holiday, with a very nice staff.
    • in September 10
      Overall we were very satisfied with the service.
    • in September 10
      Overall we were very satisfied with the service.
    • in June 10
      Activities: The team suffered from a inefficient chef called Momo.
    • in August 10
      The accessibility and friendliness of the staff are not so friendly, just like in other was really surprised, maybe it's the mentality of the Cretan islanders.

Location

    • in October 10
      Maybe we're just too spoiled, but that didn't just nothing to do with a beautiful beach.
    • in August 10
      We enjoyed the beautiful beach, he was always very clean.
    • in July 10
      We went on a day some beaches on Crete and to the conclusion that the Apollonia the by far the most beautiful beach.
    • in June 10
      Just walk through the area to get to the beautiful beach.
    • in July 11
      Because of the central location We relaxed day trips to Agios Nikolaos, elounda, Heraklion or in the mountains.
    • in July 10
      The central location is but a very good starting point for many excursions and discoveries in Crete.
    • in September 11
      Beach was clean and okay.
    • in August 11
      Great food, nice staff, beautiful garden, big pool area and a clean beach.
    • in July 11
      Beach is clean and has a blue flag not deserved.
    • in July 10
      The beach is clean and right next to the hotel.
    • in July 11
      Positive: children care by TUI best family, direct beach location with easy availability of beach chairs, on the day of departure for Spätflieger once more room for showering and changing clothes which was made available, family rooms nice, large and clean.
    • in June 11
      Overall, this is a really nice hotel with Apollonia all extras such as pool with diving board, direct beach location, water slides with pool for the little ones, speisenservice directly at the pool, animation, w-LAN, billiards, and a nice bar.
    • in July 11
      The food at the three theme restaurants was very, very good and the atmosphere was a lot nicer as in the main restaurant.
    • in July 11
      Large praise but for the a la carte restaurants were very good although nothing special has presented the Greek : (a shameOtherwise all in all a nice stay.
    • in July 11
      The food in the restaurant and in the specialty restaurants were good.
    • in September 10
      Location is great - very close to the airport though you don't hear airplanes :)the sea-view room has a great view.
    • in July 10
      The seating area after dinner in the garden under the palm trees are adequate and great location.
    • in July 11
      Great service, great rooms, pool and beach was very nice, staffVery friendly and competent, great kitchen, all in allvery, very good!
    • in May 11
      Beach is very nice with enough beach chairs.
    • in September 10
      The beach is very nice, about 100 meters far on sand was very shallow.
    • in September 11
      The beach is nice and if you with a sand and gravel mixture of you can relax here.
    • in August 11
      A great and nice hotel with good service, friendly staff, excellent food, Italian was great, the beach was very nice, only stayed one week on a business trip, so I wasn't able to everythingTake advantage of!
    • in July 11
      The hotel area was nice and well-kept.
    • in May 11
      The hotel area was really nice, almost like a park, many beautiful plants, including many palm trees, many seats and beach chair possibilities, many, in which one is, there are hammocks, the hang of palms, very nice, unfortunately only three and well attended, otherwise for a big-leeside palmenwiese, the usual pool beach chair possibilities and many stray seating under trees and a fountain.
    • in July 11
      The beach was a bit dirty to swim.
    • in August 11
      Very nice location, acceptable price/performance ratio, the beach could have been cleaner, shaving plug in the bathroom was missing, again at any time!

Gastronomy

    • in August 11
      And the food was delicious.
    • in August 11
      The food is delicious and there is at any time more than adequate in the various restaurants and snack bars.
    • in May 11
      The food was very delicious with a largeSelection of salad and vegetables.
    • in May 10
      The food was delicious and the selection at the buffet was huge and very varied.
    • in August 11
      A great and nice hotel with good service, friendly staff, excellent food, Italian was great, the beach was very nice, only stayed one week on a business trip, so I wasn't able to everythingTake advantage of!
    • in October 10
      The food was excellent with a varied choice.
    • in September 10
      Excellent selection and variety of food.
    • in September 10
      Excellent selection and variety of food.
    • in September 10
      Excellent selection and variety of food - the entire family loved it.
    • in September 10
      Excellent selection and variety of food - the entire family loved it.
    • in July 11
      The food is very good, but in the three hotel's à la carte restaurants disappointing.
    • in May 11
      Very good was the food.
    • in October 10
      Very pleasant hotel with wonderful gardens; you are made to feel very well cared for, the staff is very nice and tried hard to please the guests; the offer of food is varied, in particular, I found the offer at changing Cretan food very good; all-inclusive was a good choice; the room was large and clean as was the bathroom; while it's like the area is to some extent other you had an industrial area, a quick access to the highway so we in ten minutes to the port in the capital city of Heraklion were, where we had a nice easy stroll around the town; is also worth seeing the Creta aquarium; the afternoons we spent because of the heat on the beach; we had a great relaxing stay!
    • in July 10
      The food was really good too.
    • in June 10
      The food was very good.
    • in July 11
      Very poor drinks (no name and much too sweet), meals were partly very good, but also very bad.
    • in July 10
      Super seaside holiday - hotel accommodation and meals were very good!
    • in August 11
      no sun loungers),Food was cold by left-ins river, note 6 shows, great food, nice garden, older Hotel, shower in the room much too small, drinks partly not edible, after 22:00 no entertainment possibilities, only 1 bar.
    • in August 11
      Great food, nice staff, beautiful garden, big pool area and a clean beach.
    • in July 11
      All of us liked the food tasted great, the waiters were very attentive and very quickly cleared dirty dishes.
    • in June 11
      The food in the hotel is great.
    • in May 11
      A beautiful hotel with great food!
    • in July 10
      The food is great, the people really nice and accomodating.
    • in August 10
      The resort is very well maintained and the food very rich and good and I can't imagine that there are people who have are not satisfied with!
    • in August 10
      The food rich and good.
    • in August 10
      The food rich and good.
    • in August 10
      The resort is very well maintained and the food very rich and good and I can't imagine that there are people who have are not satisfied with!
    • in July 11
      The food was very varied but unfortunately, there were Greek specialities as pita bread and stuffed wine leaves only once a week at the buffet Greek.
    • in July 11
      Food was extremely varied, but has only weniges really enjoyed.
    • in June 11
      The rooms were clean and the food was very varied.
    • in October 10
      The food is varied and sufficient, also at the pool bar.
    • in September 11
      A very clean, well-kept hotel area with beautiful spacious rooms, good, varied food.
    • in July 11
      The food was very varied and we could hardly decide between main restaurant, tavern, Asian or à la carte restaurant.
    • in July 10
      With teenage children between 20 and 17 years old is the only recommended since the prices for drinks were rather expensive.
    • in July 11
      Very poor drinks (no name and much too sweet), meals were partly very good, but also very bad.

Sport & Entertainment

    • in August 11
      There are many beach chair possibilities, either in a beautiful garden with old trees or on the beach.
    • in August 11
      The Apollonia beach resort & SpA is a very nice clean hotel with a beautiful garden.
    • in August 11
      Great food, nice staff, beautiful garden, big pool area and a clean beach.
    • in October 10
      The surrounding area is very well maintained, especially the garden is beautiful.
    • in August 11
      The pool area is big enough and consists of a larger Salzwasserschwimmbad with diving board, a Süßwasserschwimmbad with different depths and a small pool with two slides supervised by a Rettungschwimmer.
    • in August 11
      Great food, nice staff, beautiful garden, big pool area and a clean beach.
    • in August 11
      The whole impression of the hotel from the lobby, restaurant, bars, pool areas to the rooms was very clean and well maintained.
    • in August 11
      The whole impression of the hotel from the lobby, restaurant, bars, pool areas to the rooms was very clean and well maintained.
  • enough and free pool chairs
    • in August 11
      Our garden was very nice and the pool.
    • in August 11
      no sun loungers),Food was cold by left-ins river, note 6 shows, great food, nice garden, older Hotel, shower in the room much too small, drinks partly not edible, after 22:00 no entertainment possibilities, only 1 bar.
    • in August 11
      The Apollonia beach resort & SpA is a very nice clean hotel with a beautiful garden.
    • in July 10
      All in all we had a wonderful holiday in a hotel, its size, as you aren't tell that the quiet corners but every comfort of a big hotels to offer ( nice spa area, entertainment, kids club .
    • in May 10
      Sport, entertainment and pool: The pools are well maintained and clean.
    • in May 10
      Sport, entertainment and pool: The pools are well maintained and clean.
    • in May 11
      The beach and pool are OK, particularly the supervision at the pool was a good feeling with the kids.
    • in August 11
      The salt water pool was OK.
    • in May 10
      The resort is very large and has a beautiful park area, a bigger and a smaller pool for adults, a swimming pool with two slides for the kids and two mini-pools are for small children.
    • in August 11
      no sun loungers),Food was cold by left-ins river, note 6 shows, great food, nice garden, older Hotel, shower in the room much too small, drinks partly not edible, after 22:00 no entertainment possibilities, only 1 bar.

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